Chelsea’s scoring struggles summed up by staggering stat

Graham Potter admitted that the create-up to Chelsea’s trip to Tottenham experienced been ‘a difficult week’ right after the Blues dropped to rock-bottom Southampton very last weekend.

In the wake of another damning defeat – and an additional match without the need of a goal – speculation is rife about what the upcoming seven days hold for Potter. Whatever might appear, they will certainly be challenging.

In real truth, tiny about getting a soccer supervisor can quite possibly be easy when your staff continuously fails to find the web. After a 2- reverse at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday, Chelsea have scored just six league aims in their last 12 game titles. It is the joint-cheapest tally of any team in England’s prime 4 divisions due to the fact Bonfire Night (for each Sky Athletics).

Everton are the only skilled staff in the region that have endured the exact struggles in entrance of target. Frank Lampard – ironically, Chelsea’s all-time primary scorer – was sacked through this sequence and replaced by Sean Dyche. The former Burnley boss has only viewed his new side rating two times but the Toffees have gathered 6 factors from their previous 4 game titles, a tally Chelsea would enviously gawk at.

The Blues have not won any of their final six matches across all competitions, the club’s longest hold out for a victory because December 2012. Roberto Di Matteo was ushered out of Stamford Bridge in the middle of this dire run of variety, just seven months soon after steering Chelsea to the club’s 1st-ever Champions League title.

League One’s Accrington Stanley and Cambridge United have narrowly outscored Chelsea because the start off of November (with eight targets) but are circling the plughole in England’s third tier, with the two golf equipment sitting down in the division’s base four.

Crystal Palace have scored 8 Leading League plans in this interval but, alongside Chelsea, are one particular of just two teams in England’s major flight that have failed to win any of their last 5 league video games.

Southampton scored 1 of their 8 objectives against Chelsea. James Ward-Prowse took his totally free-kick tally to a swollen 17 in the Premier League, ending a three-activity shedding operate for the Premier League’s basement dwellers.

Chelsea continue being in mid-table, rather than fending off relegation like the other folks golf equipment on this list, many thanks to a fairly parsimonious backline. Even right after conceding Oliver Skipp’s very first-at any time purpose for Tottenham and Harry Kane’s 268th on Sunday, Chelsea have delivered just 10 league objectives because the start of November. Only a few golf equipment – Newcastle, Brentford and Fulham – have conceded less in this period.

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Yet, the force on Potter has properly and certainly been cranked up. Chelsea have not claimed a victory exterior of Stamford Bridge in any of their final ten away game titles – the longest such sequence the club has endured due to the fact the convert of the millennium.

Potter, who has been lumbered with the endeavor of mixing a file-breaking glut of pricey and eclectic January signings, is hardly the sole cause of all Chelsea’s troubles this time.

Chelsea have failed to defeat any workforce which began the day earlier mentioned them in the Leading League desk all time, including the opening months of the marketing campaign when Thomas Tuchel frantically paced around the Blues’ technical location.

With a vital Champions League tie towards Borussia Dortmund swiftly approaching, Chelsea will not have long to discover their misplaced capturing boots. If these scoring struggles proceed to dog the Blues, Potter may be in for a couple of far more tricky weeks – if he is afforded that lengthy in the job.